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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I have looked around these forums and google but am still unable to find a simple solution to what I would have thought was a simple request.

I want to create a boot diskette.

I have tried....

Creating diskette from images on CD1 - all images are above 1.4MB so no good. I believe RHEL 3 had image for floppy. RHEL 4 no longer seems to support this function?

running command....mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`

I get...mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.kT3612/vmlinuz': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.kT3612/initrd.img': No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
20+0 records in
20+0 records out

This does not create a boot floppy I can use. Goes to a boot prompt and asks for input. What is needed here I am not sure. I think it wants what was not written to floppy due to space. Can someone clarify this please?

I have looked on RedHat site as well but there is not clear instruction to creating a boot disk. I have a RHEL3 RHCE prep book that goes through creating a floppy but I am unable to do it.

Advice would be appeciated.

UPDATE

Don't worry. Booting from floppy is no longer supported for RHEL 4 according to official RedHat course material.

I cannot boot from CD. BIOS set to boot cd before hdd but fails to, when I interrupt and enter boot menu and select cdrom, cannot read it....strike F1 to retry or F2 to enter setup.

I want to try to extend my root filesystem. My plan was to go into rescue mode, unmount it, resize the partition and remount it. I can no longer bnoot off the cd so might need that damn boot floppy after all. I also need to configure a 'kickstart' floppy. I assume this means I need to create a boot floppy and add a kickstart file to it???